Human Rights

Jacksonville Stands With Palestine

October 18, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Human Rights, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Occupation, Palestine, Racism

from Fight Back! News, October 18, 2023 Jacksonville, FL – Over 500 people took the streets, October 14, to march in support of the Palestinian liberation movement against Israeli occupation. Demonstrators held Palestinian flags and chanted “Free free, Palestine.” While the crowd was majority Arab, people from all backgrounds and ages joined the fight. The crowd was energetic and steadfast[…]

Hostages: Learning from Israel

October 9, 2023 UNAC Editor Human Rights, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine

by Norman Finkelstein, published on his website, October 7, 2023 The crocodile tears have begun over Israeli hostages taken by Gaza militants. But Israel has held the 2.1 million people of Gaza, including one million children, hostage in one of the most densely populated areas on the planet for nearly 20 years. In fact, Israel was the only country in[…]

Menendez Bribery Scandal: Egypt vs. Ethiopia

September 28, 2023 UNAC Editor Conflict Over Water, Egypt, Ethiopia, Human Rights, Legislation, US Politics

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, September 27, 2023 Why did Menendez ignore Egypt’s human rights record and attack Ethiopia’s? Federal investigators caught New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez and his wife Nadine with $180,000 worth of gold bars, $550,000 in cash, plus furniture and a $60,000 Mercedes Benz that they didn’t pay for. The US Attorney for the[…]

Nicaragua Celebrates its Revolution While the US Plans New Sanctions Against It

July 30, 2023 UNAC Editor Democracy and Consent, Human Rights, New Pink Tide, New World Visions, Nicaragua, Political Analysis, Resistance, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Socio-Economic Struggles, War on the Poor

by Roger Harris, published on Internationalist 360°, July 27, 2023 “We are fighting against the Yankee enemy of humanity,” explained Nicaraguan Vice President Rosario Murillo, setting the tone of the 44th anniversary celebration of their revolution. Later, her husband Daniel Ortega, the country’s president, elaborated in his hour and a half address: “When we use the term Yankee we mean[…]

UNRWA To Stop Services to Palestinian Refugees in August Due to Financial Crisis

July 6, 2023 UNAC Editor Genocide, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, Israel-Palestine, Palestine

by Tareq S. Hajjaj, published on Mondoweiss, June 24, 2023 Ahmad Ayyesh, 41 and a father of six children, is standing in a protest in the midday heat on Tuesday afternoon outside the large doors of United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) headquarters in Gaza City. He joined the protest to raise his voice and demand that the agency’s[…]

Palestinian History Doesn’t Start With the Nakba

May 16, 2023 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Human Rights, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Occupation, Palestine

by the Palestinian Youth Movement, published on Mondoweiss, May 14, 2023 This year marks 75 years since the Nakba, which saw over 500 Palestinian villages destroyed and depopulated and up to one million Palestinians forcibly expelled from their homes. On May 15th, Palestinians around the world commemorate Nakba Day. Although the Nakba is commemorated on May 15th and often incorrectly[…]

Oxfam Report Highlights Deep Harms of IMF ‘Austerity Drive’ in Poor Nations

April 27, 2023 UNAC Editor Austerity, Economics, Human Rights, International Aid and Debt, Poverty

by Jake Johnson, published on CommonDreams, April 13, 2023 Austerity is the flip side of sanctions. For the global south, economic interactions with western financial institutions are “austerity” vs “sanctions” which amounts to “Damned if you do; Damned if you don’t” The entire western economic structure is geared to extraction, and its prescriptions permeate the global south like poison. [jb][…]

Food Cuts Show Women Bear Brunt of Deepening Economic Crisis

April 27, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Human Rights, Oppression of Women, Poverty, Socialism, US Government Action

by Monica Moorehead, published on Workers World, March 16, 2023 No matter how large or small, no class struggle can be put into its social context without understanding the current global capitalist economic crisis. Neoliberal policies flow from long-term and short-term fluctuations within the capitalist system, which no ruling class can ultimately control. There used to be periods of ebbs[…]

Prioritizing U.S. Imperialism in Evaluating Latin America’s Pink Tide

April 19, 2023 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Brazil, Colonialism, Ecuador, Human Rights, Imperialism, Latin America, New Pink Tide, Venezuela

by Steve Ellner, published in The Monthly Review, March Edition Two conflicting leftist positions on Latin America’s wave of progressive governments known as the Pink Tide have become increasingly well-defined over the last two decades. One position is favorable, while the other highly critical, to the extent that Pink Tide presidents—including Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro, Ecuador’s Rafael Correa, Bolivia’s Evo Morales,[…]

Renewed Peace Movement Lauded As Protesters Marched in Washington, D.C., on 20th Anniversary of U.S. Invasion of Iraq

March 22, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Featured, Human Rights, Protest

by Julie Varughese, published on Towards Freedom, March 21, 2023 WASHINGTON, D.C.—An estimated couple of thousand of people to “several thousand” marched on March 18 in downtown Washington D.C., calling for an end to the U.S. imperialist project that they hold responsible for 20 years of a “War on Terror” on millions of people. The weekend marked the 20th anniversary[…]